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To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (87)	10/29/2001 10:32:46 AM
From: willcousa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 786

You have got to be kidding! You want the President to micromanage our administration? Every President who has tried that has fallen far short of his potential. The worst was Jimmy Carter. Your pacifism has addled your brain.

To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (87)	10/29/2001 10:56:19 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 786

Cary, If Bush is as limited as you believe and I fret about that too, then Cheney being there is a good thing. I know his politics are way different from yours(and mine to some extent) but i think we can agreee that he has good leadership skills and great experience. View it in terms of a parliamentary system--bush is figurehead and PM is real leader. What we need from bush is to instill confidence in the people and that has been trailing off with anthrax reaction and a failure to explain our military action properly. Do you agree with me that ground action with special ops is an important thing to do if only to deflect arab criticism. I think they still believe we have no heart and are only willing to fight from the air. Please note Bush will be at Yankee stadium tomorrow for game 3 and baseball is an area of expertise. mike

To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (87)	10/29/2001 6:54:23 PM
From: Math Junkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 786

I don't see how that Cheney interview supports the conclusion you're drawing from it. And with regard to the specific portion that you quoted, he was answering a question about how involved he had been, not how involved the president had been. You remind me of that commercial where the boss growls at his middle manager because one of his employees solved their plastics supply problem, rather than the middle manager solving it himself. That commercial has never made sense to me, because it goes against everything I have ever heard about how a manager is supposed to make things happen. If someone that a manager hires solves problems, it means that the manager is doing his job, because a big part of a manager's job is to hire good people, set policy, and then let them do their jobs.